Smog, Extinctions, and Disasters Coming to a State Near You

In 1973, shortly after the first Earth Day, with the American public increasingly aware of the importance of biodiversity, the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon….under the Trump administration, at least 63 separate legislative efforts to weaken the act have been undertaken since January 2017, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

This article from the NYT details how big money has corrupted our government’s environmental policies, especially under the Trump administration. Campaign donors get their way under this “no science, please” cabal of folks who should have been “drained” from the swamp.